I am taking a course in Family Violence and abuse, and in the main textbook- Family Violence, Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives.http://www.amazon.com/Family-Violence-Me...01738073&sr=1-1 Chapter 6 talks about ritualistic abuse, and I just couldn't believe that this sort of thing was printed in a college textbook, especially in the late 2000's! I sent this letter to the e-mail included in t he foreward. I did not speak as a Church of Satan member, only as a college student who wants to try to keep my education from being wasted.________________________________________________________________Dear Mr. Roberson, I am a student in college working towards my Bachelor degree in science. Currently I am taking a course in Family Violence & Abuse, and am using the 5th edition of the book Family Violence by Harvey Wallace. Thumbing through the contents where the chapters are listed I was amazed to find a chapter on Ritualistic Child Abuse (Chapter 6).I believe that printing this sort of thing fosters ignorance. Ritualistic abuse on a large scale has never been proven, it was proven however, that many children who were questioned were led to make false confessions. The Satanic Panic of the 80’s has been studied and discounted many times since the early 90’s. While it is true that there are remarks made that say that this sort of thing was never quite proven to be true there are many other statements that would lead someone to believe otherwise. Lines between different belief systems were blurred, and equating fictitious initiations and Marine boot camp is highly irresponsible, as is comparing Satanic activity and ritualistic abuse with the Holocaust, we actually have evidence that the Holocaust happened. In support of Ritualistic abuse, the evidence offered is that many people came forth and spoke of it. Many people have also admitted to being abducted by aliens, seeing Bigfoot, and the Loch Ness monster. I am completely aware that there may have been some isolated instances where ritualistic abuse might have occurred, but as was said about drugs and alcohol causing child abuse is most likely a result of someone blaming the use of drugs as an excuse. In the recent years there has been news coverage of priests in the Catholic Church who had abused some young boys. Here is a website that lists links to news articles regarding abuse committed in other religions such as, Catholicism, Scientology, Jehovah’s Witness, Hare Krishna and the Mormon faith. Factnet-http://www.factnet.org/CIF/child_abuse.htm?FACTNet#CatholicThe point I am making is this, these were not denigrated into being called “cult crimes”, since Satanism is a minority religion, more so than that of any one of the above listed religions, then chapter 6 in the textbook is overly critical as well as prejudicial in nature.CSER Reports on Satanism by Shawn Carlson, PHDhttp://www.arcane-archive.org/religion/satanism/cser-reports-on-satanism-1.php1992 FBI Report --Satanic Ritual Abuse by Kenneth V. Lanninghttp://www.skeptictank.org/fbi1992.htmGiving the devil more than his due by David Alexanderhttp://www.smwane.dk/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=13The Satanic Panic by Jeffrey Victorhttp://www.amazon.com/Satanic-Panic-Creation-Contemporary-Legend/dp/081269192XChapter 6 of the textbook lacks substantiation, scholastic credibility and scientific analysis. I highly suggest that it be revised or removed altogether. Sincerely, XXXXXXXX

I somewhat remember the "Satanic Panic". I mostly remember seeing a few documentaries..(Rory Kennedy maybe?) one in particular almost completely debunking ritualistic abuse even occurring by picking apart the weirdly suggestive "hypnotic regression" sessions of certain preachers. Can't remember their names...what I do remember is this guy claiming he had an entire church full of victims of ritualistic abuse.

Story after story of sad, distressed family members followed, no longer able to talk to their children due to some yahoo convincing then that they were forced to eat beating goat hearts and stab babies or something.

I'm very glad you wrote that. Anything that slowly eats away the silliness

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If I ever figure out how to convert scanned documents into editable text, I will post it here. Anybody know how to do that without special equipment?

You'd probably have to post it as an image, but you'd be most likely infringing on the copyrights of the book. I would not advise reproducing anything from a published book without written consent, even as a posting on a message board such as this.

Ritual abuse.. as if life wasn't twisted enough already

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It should state it somewhere in the first couple of pages (where the copyright information is located). I have some textbooks here that state any reproduction is prohibited. I just grabbed one at random and it's published by Prentice Hall and clearly states that any reproduction of any kind is not allowed without written permission.

It's funny they haven't changed the parts on "ritual abuse" to cover the Catholic Priest's behavior with young boys.

Edit.. Wait, you already mentioned that in your post. Never mind

Edited by Mjollnir (01/30/0810:34 PM)

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